Kagoro
Kagoro, also known as Gworok, is a large town in the southern part of Kaduna State, in North West Nigeria. Gworok is attractive for tourists because of its mountainous scenery and cultural events such as the Afan Festival, a national festival which is celebrated annually on 1 January.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kambai Akau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wallat Dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 77,000 residents
- Description: town in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Gworog” and “Gworok”
Kagoro
- Categories: town, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Fada, Kaura, Kaduna State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.6° or 9° 36′ northLongitude
8.3833° or 8° 23′ eastPopulation
77,000Elevation
816 metres (2,677 feet)Open location code
6FXCH9XM+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 501411276OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2335614Wikidata ID
Q6346637
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yoruba—“Kagoro” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kagoro”
- Cebuano: “Kagoro”
- Chinese: “卡戈羅”
- Dutch: “Kagoro”
- French: “Kagoro”
- Hausa: “Kagoro”
- Irish: “Kagoro”
- Malagasy: “Kagoro”
- Polish: “Kagoro”
- Slovenian: “Gworok”
- Slovenian: “Kagoro”
- Swahili: “Kagoro”
- Tyap: “Gwolok”
- Tyap: “Gwood”
- Tyap: “Gwoot”
- Tyap: “Gworog”
- Tyap: “Gworok”
- Yoruba: “Kagoro”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kagoro”. Photo: Wallat Dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0.